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Open Source – A public radio show with Christopher Lydon
March 6, 2006: George Katodrytis was interviewed on the Open Source Radio show broadcast from Boston.
Open Source, is an American public radio show based in Boston and distributed around the country (and the world) on Public Radio International. You can read more about our show here:
www.radioopensource.org/dubai

Dubai?
Dubai is the fastest growing city on the planet. It’s not vast oil reserves that allows Dubai to bust out all over. The riviera is a cluster of cranes and scaffolding, punctuated by skyscrapers that cut impossible streaks into the sky. An indoor ski slope. An underwater hotel. The tallest building in the world, shaped like a giant lighting rod. No more room on the beachfront? No problem. They simply manufacture more. The Guardian’s Adam Nicolson says Dubai is “Not the modern centre of the Arab world but, more than that, the Arab centre of the modern world.” Is Dubai the next London, the next New York? Is this the face of the empire that will succeed us?
A public radio show with Christopher Lydon and invited participants:
Youssef Ibrahim (Managing Director, Strategic Energy Investment Group, Former Middle East Bureau correspondent, the New York Times)
Yasmine Rashidi (Reporter, Wall Street Journal)
George Katodrytis (Architect and Professor)
Keith Williamson (Web designer and blogger, Adventures in Dubai)

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